Safety razor



(No Model.)

Plvoos, SAFETY RAZOR.

No. 575,511. 5 Patented Jan. 19, 1897.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANZ voos, or SOLINGEN, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO MAX KLAAS, on NEW YORK, N. Y.

SAFETY-RAZO R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 575,511, dated January 19, 1897.

Application filed September 26, 1896. Serial No. 607,115. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: loosely through the lugs a engage tapped 55 Be itknown thatI,FRANZVs,of Solingen, openings of the hooks 0 such hooks being Germany, have invented certain new and usepreferably doubled, Fig. 8, to present an inful Improvements in Safety-Razors, of which creasednumber of threads to the screws. The 5 the following is a specification. screws e are headed and carry the nuts e, so

This invention relates to a safety-razor of that they are revoluble, but not vertically 6o novel construction which is readily adjustmovablein thelugs a Byturningthe screws able to compensate for wear and adapt itself the clamp 0 will therefore be raised or lowto different thicknesses of the blade. ered to raise or lower the blade f and cause 10 In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is it to be adjusted in relation to the comb a.

an end view of my safety-razor. Fig. 2 is a Thus if the blade is reduced by wear or by similar View showing the blade in a different honing, the proper relative position between position; Fig. 3, a rear view of the razor; its cutting edge and the guard can be readily Fig. 4, a plan; Fig. 5, a plan of the clampdereestablished.

15 tached; Fig. 6, a plan of the guard detached; The handle I) is preferably provided with a Fig. 7, an end view of the clamp; Fig. 8, a pernotched end 19', adapted to engage the heads spective view thereof; and Fig. 9, a cross-secof the screws 01 and c, Fig. 2, and permit its tion on line 9 9, Fig. 3. use as a screw-driver.

My improved safety-razor consists, essen- It will be seen that by my invention the 20 tially, of three parts, viz: the frame or guard, blade may be readily adjusted in a longituthe clamp for holding the blade, and the blade dinal direction without straining or bending itself. The guard and the clamp are made any part of the guard, so that an accurate in separate pieces, which are connected by alinement of all the parts can be constantly set-screws in such a manner that the clamp is maintained:

25 longitudinally movable alongthe guard in or- What I claim is-- der to raise and lower the blade and compen- 1. The combination 1n a safety-razor, of a sate for wear. frame having a pair of guide-rails, a pair of l The letter a represents the guard or casing rearwardlyextending lugs, and a toothed terminating in the toothed lower edge or comb lower edge, with a clamp having rearwardly- 30 a, and provided with the tapped perforation extending hooks that engage the said rails,

a which is adapted to receive the end of the and with a pair of screws that adj ustablyconhandle I). The. body of the guard is slotted, nect the frame-lugs with the clamp-hooks, as at a to form a pair of guide-rails a At substantially as specified.

its upper end the guard is bent at right an- 2. A safety-razor composed of a U-shaped 3 5 gles to form a flange or a pair of lugs o which clamp having a longitudinal head 0, a setare centrally perforated, as at a screw passing transversely through said bead,

The clamp c is made of spring metal and is a guard engaged by the clamp, and set-screws U-shaped in cross-section with converging for adjustably connecting the guard with the sides, so as to fit the usual razor-back. The clamp, substantially as specified.

40 upper cross-bar of the clamp is provided with 3. The combination of a guard havingguidea contracted section or longitudinal head 0, rails a and perforated lugs a, with a clamp through which passes a transverse set-screw having bead c, and laterally-projecting hooks (Z. By tightening or loosening this screw the 0 that engage the guide-rails, a set-screw'd, sides of the clamp may be drawn. together or engaging the bead, and a pair of set-screws e,

45 allowed to spread, in order to accommodate engaging the lugs a and the hooks 0 subblades of different thicknesses or reduced in stantially as specified. thickness by honing, as will be readily under- In testimony that I claim the foregoing as stood. my invention I have signed my name in pres- From one side of the clamp 0 there projects ence of two subscribing witnesses. 50 a pair of hooks 0 which extend through the slots a and engage the rails -a of the guard FRANZ VOOS. a. These hooks connect the parts a c in such Witnesses: a manner that the clamp c is vertically mov- H. T. HESS,

able along the guard a. Set-screws e, passing OTTO KoNIG. 

